MCP vs. Skills: Two Ways to Give Your AI Superpowers
A practical mental model for deciding when to integrate tools with MCP and when to encode judgment as Skills—plus real-world orchestration patterns from building with Rustic AI.
Topic
AI
A collection of 28 post
Why Workflows Fail: The Indeterministic Business Problem
MIT found 95% of enterprise AI initiatives show no P&L impact. The issue isn't the technology—it's the container. Workflows assume predictable processes, but your business runs on storms. What happend when deterministic scripts collide with indeterministic reality.
Actuation-First: The Execution Layer Becomes the Truth
Stop treating dashboards as truth. This post argues for an actuation-first architecture where an intent→plan→action ledger becomes the system of record. Agents plan, execute, reconcile, and learn under policy, collapsing status drift to zero and making rollbacks native.
Goal Health Beats Project Status
The era of traffic-light status is ending. It was an honest attempt to create order under constraints of human coordination and poor sensing, but it incentivized the wrong behaviors. The new north star is Goal Health: a probabilistic, policy-aware truth that makes work audible and actionable.
Dynamic Guilds: Orgs That Assemble Themselves
Explore how dynamic guilds—adaptive teams of humans and AI agents—replace rigid workflows with goal-driven collaboration. Learn how organizations can reconfigure themselves naturally to achieve outcomes in complex environments.